Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- interj. Used to express a demand for silence.
- v. To demand silence from by saying "shush”: "Simon shushed him quickly as though he had spoken too loudly in church” ( William Golding).
Wiktionary
- v. onomatopoeia To be quiet; to keep quiet.
WordNet 3.0
- v. silence (someone) by uttering `shush!'
Examples
“So, for example, when I appear to "shush" the camera in this video, rest assured, that's not the case!”
“(Could you imagine how strange it would be if the umpire signaled to the crowd before C.C. Sabathia pitched that they had to "shush" while the big left hander delivered the ball?)”
“There were only a few out bursts from the opposition which were hushed with a librarian style 'shush' from the crowd.”
“CNN didn't get the message – although they knew enough to say "shush" about that message just before the on-camera appearance.”
“I'm watching by myself this week because my friend Travis thinks I would "shush" him.”
“No sign of post-Act I applauders, and there always are some and some 'shush'ers.”
“All of this, while the teachers confiscate cell phones and "shush" students who cannot hear because of the pitiful PA system.”
“I try not to "shush" anyone unless they're really loud or having a conversation across the room.”
“Common problems are teenagers graffiti, public urinatiion, being surly with staff...you think this is a "shush" problem?”
“I'm pretty happy to have a cool doll to represent me, even if I don't "shush" people.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘shush’.
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Onomatopoetic
words (seemingly) formed in imitation of a natural sound
plash, guff, woof, splash, crash, pow, crack, bang, whoosh, whizz, whallop, fizz and 116 more...
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Sounds
words that describe sound
atchoo, atishoo, babble, bam, bay, beep, blast, blather, bleat, bleep, blip, bong and 242 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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sound (quiet)
words for quiet sounds
( randomness, descriptive )sigh, murmur, whisper, whir, rustle, patter, hum, snap, hiss(sss), crackle, bleat, peep and 185 more...
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Cool sounding words
Stuff that either rolls off the tongue really well or sounds interesting.
suppurate, inveterate, douche, Constantinople, zyzygy, polyglot, serendipitous, vivisection, solypsis, conflagration, instupituous, fecundity and 52 more...
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pagecrusher's Words
fugu, ilk, rigamarole, superfluous, dearth, sacrosanct, moniker, bifurcate, villainous, onus, brazen, odin and 268 more...
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whatever1013's Words
chocolate, sesquipedalophobia, discombobulated, callipygian, retronym, squirm, cobalt blue, plethora, onomatopoeia, blowhard, strumpet, shush and 173 more...
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Airborn
Words and phrases from Kenneth Oppel's book, Airborn.
running lights, starboard, bow, gondola, bullhorn, rudder man, gas cell, keel, catwalk, stern, cargo bay, machinist and 152 more...
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Handcraft
Gestures, signs and signals.
gesture, sign language, hand signal, manual communication, diving signal, tic-tac, gang signal, thumbs up, thumbs down, finger binary, pointing, a-ok and 106 more...
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S
saffron, sapphire, sashay, satin, seashell, seductive, sepia, serene, shadow, shimmer, silhouette, skyline and 96 more...
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ifjuly's list
favorite words. some are made up injokes between me and my husband or family.
skein, zaftig, july, bed, orifice, aesthete, ink, parce-que, desormais, cake, pusillanimous, pulse and 531 more...
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courtneyah's Words
sigh, troglodyte, lithe, cambium, bark, poem, trochee, minute, ablution, hermeneutic, dogwood, mystique and 98 more...
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I use these words (sometimes)
schmendeler, bamboozled, cuntish, bullshitery, phan, inclusion, fuckery, strune, catflappery, wankishness, indeed, momography and 53 more...
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Quiet Alternatives
Quiet
tacit, taciturn, still, hushed, dampen, soft pedal, clammed up, pipe down, hush-hush, shush, muffled, toned down and 34 more...
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measured words
inchworm, football, yardstick, quarter, octave, week, fortnight, sofer, pentecost, whitsunday, izzard, heshvan and 43 more...
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jimcommadarling's Words
murmur, ampersand, ubiquitous, euphemism, crucial, epitome, insofar, tantamount, accommodate, pathos, pulchritude, malapropism and 83 more...
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